I’d like to clarify that your intuition is bad not only because you’re not built to think about large situations (though that’s certainly an issue) but because you are not the person who gets to see the results.
And sometimes the results or non-results aren’t very “see-able”. For example, if you donate to a puppy rescue charity instead of, say, donating to the running of Givewell, it is kind of hard to visualize what was lost.
I’d like to clarify that your intuition is bad not only because you’re not built to think about large situations (though that’s certainly an issue) but because you are not the person who gets to see the results.
And sometimes the results or non-results aren’t very “see-able”. For example, if you donate to a puppy rescue charity instead of, say, donating to the running of Givewell, it is kind of hard to visualize what was lost.